Comment by Gadoink4

Comment by blupache

The most commonly advocated gearing strats involve maximising Mastery for damage mitigation+smoothing, then working on effective health (i.e. stam stacking) on the grounds that a larger HP pool for snafu wiggle-room is typically more useful than lower but spikier incoming damage (via avoidance stacking).

So with parry rather than mastery, substantially lower dodge and substantially more item points wasted on strength (assuming you're gearing for survival rather than threat), this piece's itemisation isn't as highly regarded by the common gearing approaches.

And if you're going for the 4pc tier approach you would be even less likely to use these as your only off-tier piece.

Comment by Rhinemonster

Molten Giant's face on your shoulders? Sounds good to me!

I'd personally love to have them cause they look pretty darn sweet to me...What do you think these or the Elementium shoulders?